[csswg-drafts] [css-fonts-5] Allow tweaking word-spacing at per-fallback granularity (#5978)

litherum has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [css-fonts-5] Allow tweaking word-spacing at per-fallback granularity ==
This issue is split off from https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/126

There are 2 use cases:
- Being able to tweak the look of fallback fonts while web fonts are loading. The goal is to reduce the effects of the visual reflow when the web font does finally load (aka "flashiness")
- Being able to tweak the look of fallback fonts for characters which are unsupported by the primary font. (I'm sure we've all seen cases where a rogue "é" somewhere on the page is rendered in some horrific and particularly noticeable fallback.)

The goal is to allow pages the ability to say something like "for this fallback font, use word spacing X, but for this other fallback font, use word spacing Y."

In https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/126#issuecomment-776063005 we resolved to do this sort of thing via `@font-face` descriptors.

In https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5533 we resolved to do this for letter spacing. This bug tracks a similar feature for word spacing.

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5978 using your GitHub account


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